Exclusive: Facebook's new face — The social networking company now wants to become a place for anyone to build applications for social computing. Fortune got an inside look. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Facebook may turn out to be a lot more important than any of us thought.

FACEBOOK PRESS CONFERENCE—LIVE! — Facebook is making a major platform announcement today at 3:00 PM PDT. We'll be at the press conference and, unless there's a clamp on video rights during the event, we'll be streaming it live, using Veodia (preview) technology. … See more Facebook coverage on Webware.

Facebook: The social Web utility company — The suspense is nearly over. In about an hour, Facebook will lift the veil on its plans to turn its social networking site into a platform that its makers hope becomes a pervasive ecosystem. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls this latest interation …

A Makeover for Facebook, and a Growing Audience — With an ambitious strategy for expansion, Facebook is getting in MySpace's face. — Facebook, the Internet's second-largest social network, was originally popular on college campuses, but over the last year it has opened its dorm-room doors to all …

Facebook aims to be Social OS — Facebook's platform strategy will be announced today in San Francisco. In discussions with multiple sources involved with the launch, we've come to see the platform as a highly ambitious idea, approaching the idea of Facebook being an operating system with other web apps riding on top of it.

Facebook's plan to hook up the world — The company's boy-wonder CEO wants to take social networking out of the dorm room and make it a platform for new businesses, reports David Kirkpatrick in a Fortune exclusive. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Imagine that when you shopped online for a digital camera …

Live at the Facebook Launch — Mark Zuckerberg is channeling Steve Jobs here at Facebook's big launch day. A giggle just went through crowd at his presentation of the three key elements of his announcement, complete with choreographed hand gestures and reiteration: "deep integration, mass distribution, and new opportunity."

N.J. Sues YouTube over Deadly Crash Footage — The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is suing several video sites, including YouTube, for infringing on the copyright of car crash footage recorded on the turnpike, eWEEK has learned. — The footage in question was recorded by a NJTA video camera.

RESTful Web Services — RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month. I interviewed the authors yesterday for an upcoming ITConversations show, but I also want to spell out here why I think it's such an important book. — In the realm of IT you could hardly pick a more controversial topic.

Because paper is scarce. And so is time. — Andy Kessler has an excellent piece in today's Wall Street Journal titled A Future For Newspapers. (In case that last link leads you to a paywall, Andy has the whole thing on his blog as well. That rocks.) Here's where Andy sees the hope:

Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini — Even while at the top of its game, Apple Inc. can seemingly find faults with just about anything, including a bit of itself. The Mac maker is constantly evaluating the market segments in which it wishes to participate and those which it does not.

THERE'S A HOLE IN YOUR TWITTER — You know Twitter, yeah? And you know how people love it because they can stay in touch with their friends and communicate privately what they're up to? — Well. If you use it like this and are happily twittering away about people you work with …